Dr. Faouzi Bekkaoui is the managing director of the National Institute for Agronomic Research (INRA), Morocco and the scientific director of the Adaptation of African Agriculture initiative (AAA). He was previously director of the school of agriculture and coordinator of the AgroBioSciences research program at the Mohammed 6 Polytechnic University of Benguerir (2017-2019). He also worked as executive director of the flagship wheat improvement program at the National Research Council Canada (NRC, 2012-2017), at ID Biomedical in the field of DNA diagnostics, at GenServe as laboratory manager in the area of plant diagnostics, at Genome Prairie as project manager and at the NRC Plant Biotechnology Institute as postdoctoral fellow. During his career, he has co-authored 51 scientific articles in various fields.